Oil-burner.



W. T. BOWLING.

OIL BURNER.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 18, 1913.

Patentd Apr. 28, 1914,

WIT IVESSES' ATTORNEYS COLUMBIA PLANOGRAPH co., WASHINGTON. u. n;

WILLIAM THOMAS DOWLING, OF DELIA, KANSAS.

OIL-BURNER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed June 18, 1913.

Patented Apr. 28, 1914. Serial No. 774,417.

To all whom it may CORC'GMM.

Be 1t known that I, WILLIAM T. DownINo, a citlzen of the United States, and a resident of Delia, in the county of Jackson and;

State of Kansas, have invented a new and Improved Oil-Burner, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to an oil burner adapted to be used in stoves or furnaces or other heating apparatus, and it is a design of the invention to improve in various particulars devices of the general character in dicated, to the end that efficiency in operation may be promoted, as well as economy of manufacture, increase of strength, and simplicity of adjustment and control.

The invention will be particularly explained in the specific description following.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in both the views.

Figure 1 i a perspective view of an oil burner embodying my invention; and Fig. 2 is a vertical section.

In constructing a burner in accordance with the illustrated example, a base 10 is provided, having a depending bottom flange 11, and a flange 12 rising at the upper side of the base. The base is designed to be" placed on the grate of a stove or furnace or other heating apparatus so that air may pass upward through the grate within the flange 11. Said base is shown round in general contour, but may in practice, be of any approved design. At one side of the base an outlet 13 rises therefrom and on the flange 12 in registerwiththe opening 13 a gooseneck 1A is provided, which in the example shown is received at its lower end in a rabbet 15 at the top of the outlet 13, there being a bead or shoulder 16 near the lower end of the gooseneck. The said gooseneck extends forwardly to overhang the front of the base, and is in the form of an elbow constituting a downtake 17, the lower end of which flares outwardly in bell form, as at 18, the said flare or bell being disposed above the base 10, at the front thereof, leaving an opening therebetween. A feed pipe 19 connected in practice with a suitable source of oil supply has an air inlet 20, and the delivery end 21 thereof may be in the form of an elbow resting on the top of the downtake 17, in a depression 22 of the latter. The elbow 21 is in register with a vertical inlet opening 23 in the down-take 17 and inside said down-take is a nozzle 25 which is coupled to the elbow-21 by a nipple 24 that extends through the opening 23. The feed pipe 19 thus has a swivel connection with the top of the down-take which promotes convenience in adjusting the angular,

position of the feed pipe as may be required by the particular construction of the stove or furnace, and the relative location of the source of supply. The upper flange 12 on the base 10 is noncontinuous at the front of said base, presenting separated flange members, thereby forming between the forward terminals of said flange an opening leading to the space between the said base and the bell 18. There is formed on the base at the front, between the flange members 12 an approximately vertical flange 26, and on the top of the base within the said front flange 26 is a pan 27 for use in starting the action of the burner. At the center the top surface of the pan 27 is rounding, the said surface extending downwardly and outwardly in curved lines in all directions to a channel 30, which is surrounded by a flange 28 on the pan.- At the front end of the pan there maybe a lug 31, having a hole 32 for the insertion of any tool or lifter for conveniently placing or removing the pan.

With the described construction the oil fuel supplied by the feed pipe 19 will carry along air from the inlet 20, thereby insuring a supply of air in intimate relation to the fuel to support combustion in addition to the air supplied by the down-take 17, and below the same.

The complete burner, it will be obvious, will be highly heated so that the air passing upwardly from the under side of the base through the outlet 13 and through the gooseneck will also be thoroughly heated. In starting the burner unvaporized oil will drop onto the rounded center of the pan 27 and may be lighted; the heat thus generated will finally so heat the burner that the fuel delivered by the feed pipe 19 will be vaporized before passing from the down-take 17 and its bell 18, the result being an ample flame burning around the mouth of the bell 18 and around the exterior toward the sides of the wall of the stove furnace or the like (not shown).

Having thus described my invention, I

claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent:

1. In an oil burner, a base, having an open bottom for the entrance of air, an air outlet ,andspaced above the latter, the lower end ofthe' down-t-akebeing fiaredin bell form, there being aspace also between theupper edge of the mentioned flange members and the flared end of the said down-take, and a feed pipeconnected with the upper end of-the down-take and providedwith a nozzle withinthe said down-take, the feedpipe'being swivele'd to the down take to alter its; angular posit-ion relatively to the latter.

2. An oil burner, comprising a base having J ame-m'ber at the upper side thereof to receive an initial supply of'oil for starting the burner, an" air down-takeoverhanging the said'mem ber, means for su-pplying'air to the i said down-take, the-top of the down-take hav- I in'g' anopening, aufeed pipe 'having its delivcry end in line withthe said=opening inthe down-take, a fuel nozzle in the down-take;

the front, a removable pan on said support,

flange members on the base at the sides of the pan and rising above the latter, the front ends of the flange members being spaced,

)resentin an oaenin between the siaced l D b ends, a down-take terminating above the said flange members, the lower end of the downtake being flared outwardly in bell form, and means for delivering fuel and air to the upper portion of said down-take.

4. An oil burner having a base formed with a depending flange forming an air space, said air space being open for the entrance of air, a pan supported on the base above the air space to receive an initial supply of oil for starting the burner, flange members rising on the base at the sides of the pan and above the latter, an air-conducting means communicating with the air space at the under side of the base and having a down-take terminating above the said flange members and pan, and means for supplying fuel to the down-take above its lower end.

In'testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

VILLIAM THOMAS DOWLING.

lVitnesses E'MERY I. ZIRKLE, EDMUND E. MULLIGAN.

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' Washington, D 0. 

